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Paper-presentation during conference on ‘Religion and Civil Society’, Harvard Law School

I will be attending the conference on ‘Religion and Civil Society; The Changing Faces of "Religion" and "Secularity"’ this week, organized by the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain), at Harvard Law School. For the conference, which was announced earlier on this blog, I co-authored a paper with Jaco van den Brink on ‘The State, Civil Society and Religious Freedom’. The final program appears below:

7th June

PLENARY SESSIONS AND DISCUSSION

9:00

"The changing faces of religion and secularism"Mary Ann GlendonLearned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University Law School, Cambridge.

10:00

"Parenthood in God and civil society"Rafael AlviraProfessor of History of Philosophy at ICS University of Navarra

11:00

"Religious civilization and civil religion in a multicultural world"Carmelo VignaProfessor of Moral Philosophy at Università Ca Foscari of Venice

Crosses and Culture: State-Sponsored Religious Displays in the United States and EuropeMark L. MovsesianFrederick A. Whitney Professor and Director at the Center for Law and Religion, St. John’s University, New York.

The State, Civil Society and Religious FreedomHans-Martien ten NapelAssistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University.

A Cookbook of Ways to Dissolve Religious Associations through LawIain T. BensonSenior Associate Counsel of Miller Thomson LLP in Canada. University of the Free State of South Africa.

Freedom of Religion and Belief: Is there a Role for the European External Action Service?Pasquale AnnicchinoResearch Fellow at Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole.

Forum Internum and Forum Externum and the Negotiation of the Public-Private Divide in Canon Law and Public International Law with a Particular Reference to the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human RightsPeter PetkoffResearch Fellow. Director of Law, Religion and International Relations Programme. Regent’s Park College, Oxford. Brunel University Law School, West London.

Religious freedom and the cultural dimension of religionFrancisca Pérez MadridProfessor of Law at University of Barcelona.

16:00

Workshop IIMedieval Political Theology: Theory & Practice.Chair: Jaume Aurell. Dean of the School of Philosophy and Social Studies, University of Navarra

How did "Political Theology" exist in the Middle Ages?Montserrat HerreroAssociate Professor of Political Philosophy at ICS, University of Navarra.

Ernst H. Kantorowicz and Gabriel Naudé: from "Mysteries of State" to "Coups d’État"Antonio BentoAssociate Professor of Political Philosophy at University of Beira Interior.

Places of Power: the City and the Court in Late Medieval IberiaRita Costa GomesAssociate Professor of Medieval History at Towson University

Just War and Criticism of Crusade in Western Medieval SocietyMartin AurellProfessor of Medieval History at University of Poitiers. Institut Universitaire de France

King Peter of Aragon Self-coronation (1336) and its Historical, Liturgical and Iconographical RepresentationsJaume AurellAssociate Professor of Medieval History at University of Navarra

The iconology of breaking medieval seal matricesAlfons PuigarnauAssociate Professor of Theory of Art at International University of Catalunya

8th June

PLENARY SESSIONS III AND DISCUSSION

9:00

Defending Civil Society: Religious Advocacy in American National PoliticsAllen HertzkePresidential Professor of Political Science at University of Oklahoma

10:00

Why Religion and ‘the Secular’ cannot be SeparatedJean Bethke ElstainLaura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the Divinity School. Department of Political Science and the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago

11:00

The Theologico-Political Problem TodayRussell HittingerWilliam K. Warren Professor of Catholic Studies. Research Professor of Law at University of Tulsa

12:30 Lunch

WORKSHOPS

14:00

Workshop IIILiberalism, Capitalism and ReligionChair: Raquel Lázaro, University of Navarra

David Hume and True ReligionGordon GrahamHenry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary

Living toguther differently: beyond the liberal synthesisAdam SeligmanProfessor of Religion at Boston University. Research Associate at Institute for Study of Economic Culture, Boston University.

The role of Religion according Mandeville and HutchesonJulio SeoaneAssociate Professor of Philosophy at University of Alcalá

The Ethical Gap in Modern Ideals of Citizenship: A Diagnosis and a ProposalDavid ThunderVisiting Assistant Professor at Villanova University

An analysis of the history of Western Man: Personhood, Individuality & TransformationRobert de SimoneResearch Fellow at ICS at University of Navarra-New York

God and Religion in a commercial society, according to Adam SmithRaquel LázaroAssociate Professor of Modern Philosophy at University of Navarra

16:30

Workshop IVThe Media and the Process of Secularization of SocietyChair: Mercedes Montero and Mónica Codina, University of Navarra

Freedom of speech as naturalized religious freedom: historical antecedents and views from social pragmatismMariano NavarroChief of Communication Research Division at Panamericana University, México D. F.

Free speech and the rationality of public communication in a changing eraMónica CodinaAssociate Professor of Ethics and Communication at University of Navarra